Some of you might not remember the face or the name Jermaine "Huggy" Hopkins. Let me see if I can refresh your memory. Remember the movie "Lean On Me" starring Morgan Freeman? Remember the short pudgy kid Sams that smoked crack? No? Well what about Juice, with Tupac Shakur and Omar Epps? Huggy played the character Steele. Still no? Def Jam's How to be a Player, with Bill Belamy? The Wayans Brothers television show? Huggy has played alongside of Black Hollywoods biggest names. But, now is center of a marijuana trafficking investigation. Huffington Post reports:
Authorities say "Lean on Me" actor Jermaine "Huggy" Hopkins has been arrested in Phoenix for trying to buy 200 pounds of marijuana from an undercover officer.
Maricopa County Sheriff's detectives say the 38-year-old Hopkins was taken into custody Tuesday. Phoenix TV station KSAZ reports that detectives found 200 pounds of marijuana in his SUV and $100,000 cash.
Authorities later searched an Avondale apartment listed in Hopkins' name. They say they found another 100 pounds of marijuana.
Hopkins starred in the 1989 movie "Lean on Me" at 15 and has appeared on several TV shows.
Hopkins lives in North Carolina. He's being held on $35,000 bond on suspicion of two felony counts of possessing, transporting and trying to sell marijuana.
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